live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. a somber memorial service is underway this morning for the four oakland police officers shot and kill by a wanted paroleee five years ago today. thanks for joining us. long enforcement from around the bay area and beyond are gathered for an emotional tribute. they are honoring four fallen colleagues, all taken by one man on the deadly of the day in the department's history. katie marzullo is at the cathedral of christ the light in

oakland. traditional catholic mass marks the occasion underway right now inside the church. we were inside as uniformed forces stood at attention for the mass. >> our matters are heavy as we commemorate the 5 the anniversary of the tragic slaying of our four oakland police officers. it was give years ago that the police department lost the four officers. officers from multiple agencies are here today to commemorate this day. oakland's interim chief says officers risked their lives each day and today's memorial is a chance for people to pay their respects to those who made the ultimate sacrifice. it is important to realize that those who may have lost their lives are never forgotten and part of the family. it is important to remember them.

>> two were shot and killed by a wanted paroleee, a 26-year-old during a traffic stop. he barricaded himself in an apartment and opened fire on two other sergeants as they went in after. those two sergeants were members of the s.w.a.t. team. the paroleee was shot and killed by other officers. not since 1970 were four law enforcement officers in california all killed on the same day, march 21. that is a day that will always be remembered in oakland and throughout the bay area. friends and familiar of a soldier killed in afghanistan a year ago today are dedicating a new memorial in his honor this morning. a tree-planting ceremony is underway at hayward city hall for sergeant first-class james grissom who grew up in hayward and graduated from mount eden high school in 1999. he was killed days before he was supposed to come home.

richmond police hope the public can help find a car limped to the first murder of the year in the city. the victim was if her late 30's. her name is not released. police are look for a burgundy sedan. >> a 75-year-old driver fine after dramatic scene in berkeley. police say the man was trying to leave a parking lot at the berkeley marine when he drove over an embankment and right and the pay. the van was only partly submerged and he got out on his own. a sergeant said it is possible the gas peddle was stuff. the tow truck was brought in but officials didn't want to drag the van over the rocks and risk damaging the gas task. >> they are trying to figure the cause of a fire at a san jose bar. it broke out in a storage area in the back of the eldorado

club. workers noticed the fire as they closed up at 1:45 this morning and tried to put it out but were unsuccessful. crews knocked it down after arriving. >> south bay arson investigators are getting federal help in the search for the cause of a fire that damaged the san jose church. matt keller is on the scene at minnesota avenue. matt? >> the a.t.f. has been notified which is standard. as i step away from the camera you can see the santa clara county arson task force is now in control of the investigation. they are trying to figure what started the fire. >> the fire and brimstone was not coming from the pulpit but from the administration office at church of god with flames started before 5:30 this morning by the family of the senior pastor in their home next door. >> i saw a bunch of flames and

smoke rising. i woke up the family and i said, everyone get up, the church office is on fire. >> firefighters kept the flames to one room. the tree never had a chance to catch fire. the chapel was safe. was it divine intervention? the fire department? or possibly both? >> the best solution is to knock the fire down. as you can see, that is what we have done. >> volunteers tried to sal value what they could flames, smoke and water did a lot of democrat. they have insurance but money cannot replace the reports and history collected from a church several decades old. >> we have two pastors and a regular secretary, worship leader and finance bookkeeping all in this place and now i don't know what we will do. >> it is all gone? >> all gone. >> the arson task force is expected to be here on the scene for several more hours as for the church of god, i was told services will take place on

sunday. >> we can see it looks like it will be a nice weekend. >> look at this, our meteorologist is on the roof, a go place to be. >> good morning from the top of the news broadcast center where you can see behind me the flags are pointing east. that is a sea breeze. the cooling that hit the coast is taking over the rest of our neighbors for the first full day of spring. notice thing for has lit asked there is a lot of cloud cover along the coast. you had your cooling yesterday and look at the rest of us, four to ten degrees cooler right now than 24 hours ago putting our temperatures in the 50's but for in forward and antioch, 60 and 65. at mount tamalpais you can see the haze and that is going to will help us stay two to seven degrees cooler this afternoon. a couple of chances of rain in the seven-day forecast.

searchers are waiting if day light 50 the coast of australia to resume the search for those potential pieces of debris from the missing malaysian airlines flight 370. ed search has been fruitless. >> a two week after malaysian flight 370 diagnosis appeared and a day after word of a promising possible break in the case, the pictures from an australian satellite of what looked like debris so far, today, nothing. >> the search planes took to the airplane and ships are en route to check on a remote area of the indian ocean. >> this is the most inaccessible spot you can imagine on the face of the earth. >> >> an enormous tack. the sat height pictures were taken five days ago. whatever debris might have been

there could have sunk or drifted hundreds of miles by now. parts of the ocean are two miles deep or 14 empire state buildings end to end. >> this is going to be a-haul and the focus to reduce the area of certain. >> why does it take malaysian officials so long to move the search into the southern indian ocean? a satellite company told them they were searching in the wrong place more than a week ago. >> it is egregious you would under the investigation this way. >> with each day the grief is compounded for friends and families of the 239 people on board. special prayers were offered at this malaysian mosque. >> the black boxes have enough power for only two more weeks. new this morning, the city of oakland will pay $4.5 million to settle a claim been airaq war veteran beaten by police during

an occupy protest. the attorneys for scott olsen say that the 26-year-old has permanent brain damage. video taken the night the protest shows olsen pleading and being carried to safety by demonstrators. the former oakland chief confirms it was his officer that fire add bean bag at olsen on october 2011. the settlement is the result of a civil rights lawsuit against the city. >> it has been a difficult 2 1/2 yours for me and everything from recovery and the hospital and relearning how to talk to dealing with a lawsuit that has been a hot of stress. >> we have reached out to the city of oakland and are waiting for a response. >> dueling sanctions between russia and the west as president vladimir putin makings the

annexation of crimea official. >> first family meeting the other first male, michelle obama's face-to-face visit with her chinese counterpart and politics was not on the agenda. >> a heatup at a hotel that is turning 110

>> in crimea, now it is officially part of russia. vladimir putin signed papers today annexing the peninsula

that was part of the soviet state of ukraine. 25,000 ukraine military members and their families have been ordered to leave crimea. yesterday, the obama administration slapped a second round of sanctions on russia to protest the an nextation. vladimir putin retaliated with a ban on travel to russia by top united states officials yesterday but says he sees no need for further penalties today^. >> right now first lady michelen china with her daughters and was welcomed by the first lady of china and visited for an hour. she spoke of the importance of education including teaching her children about other cultures. the white house posted this video on youtube of the trip to china. mrs. obama stopped by a high school where show was joined by the first lady of china who actually is a folk singer. tomorrow, mrs. obama will speak at peking university and then visit the great wall.

her daughters and mothers are with her. >> the father of a 4th grader has filed a restraining order against a nine-year-old fellow student. he claims that he had to because the boy had been physically and verbally assaulting his son for months. the order will be void in a few days if the fairfield school district continues to refuse to release the accused bully school name and address. the county says they never heard of a restraining order against someone so young. >> big birthday bash if a matter of hours to mark the 110th birthday of san francisco's st. francis hotel with the cast of a we movie will present the hotel with a special proclamation as west westin st. francis day. the comfort saturdays at 1:00 o'clock. >> in joke how you remember when

they first opened it. >> okay, no jokes. >> twitter censored in turkey. and a work-around so they can keep tweeting. ♪ no one, no one ♪ no one >> no one can stop this nun, they have no idea, the

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>> twitter is take action in turkey after the prime minister banned the microblogging site. programmers lit up turkey giving use irinstructions on how to keep using text messaging. turkey batched twitter by court order at midnight their time. turks can use the work-around to text tweets. now our meteorologist, mike nicco. it looks a lot clearer? >> a little hazy but the peninsula has stubborn clouds and are we saw the cooling. it is working across the neighborhood and the wind in fairfield is picking up a 15 miles per hour wind moving to the northeast and that is a definite sign of a breeze that will bring cooler conditions. we will talk about what is going on from emeryville to san francisco, and the wall and haze is the cloud deck, the manner

layer clouds back along the coast. in san jose, looking pretty good with a passing cloud or two and you are seeing brighter conditions. we will call it haze sunshine and cooler everywhere but clouds tonight and the same stuff this morning will happen the next couple of mornings and clouds along the coast and the bay and partly cloudy with patchy fog inland and brighter afternoons and a slit warming trend before a pattern change next week and cooler conditions and hopefully a couple of chances of rain. a cold robert is passing through with high pressure feeding into the cold front. we will be significantly cooler today. it is brisk along the coast and upper 50's to low 60's into san francisco and mid-to-upper 60's around the bay shore and down and the south bay and upper 60's to low 70's inland. tonight, the temperatures fall into the low 40's in the not bay with fog and mid-to-upper 40's

with less cloud cover in the east bay develop and mid-40's, around 50 for the bay shore and to the coast. jumping ahead next week, on tuesday, a warm front rolls through with rain possible and a cold front behind it and another chance of rain right now on wednesday in the north bay and we get a break thursday and friday and saturday is a poll bigger storm and that is over a week away we will keep an eye on it and it could hang around until sunday and you will have to give up a weekend for the much needed rain. at lake tahoe you can see a few clouds but the not a lot of snow at 26 percent or 25 percent of where we should be for this time of the year. we are running out of time. the average is 49 for a high and 23 for a low. we are in the mid-to-upper 50's for highs and money 20's for low. here is the seven-day forecast, notice one-or-two degrees warmer saturday, sunday and the heat or warmth is here on monday it pulls back to average if not cooler on thursday with the best chance of rain rolling in on

tuesday, wednesday, and a lesser extent on thursday. >> thanks, mike. >> one of the major players of union square is showing off a green thumb in a preview of the flower show with landscape ideas and rooftop gardens with fruits and vegetables and southwest cactus and music, fashion, and cooking demonstrations, as well, and the flower show starts on sunday. we want to see how you are celebrating spring where you live and send us your pictures with the weather app and you can mail them to us to ureport@kgo-tv.com or post them to our facebook page. >> the next story is blowing up. an amazing performance by not your typical singer on an italian reality show.

♪ i don't want to call you ♪ no the crowd goes wild! the judges do, too, when they turn their chairs around and see sister christina, the nun who did an angelic job of "no one," add a blind audition. it has received three million views. and growing. >> i have seen this in a movie someplace. hmm... >> got to love it when it is blind. >> the look on their faces, priceless. >> it is friday so time for perfect

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it. at 5:00, the war room. we go in a command center to see how a company reactions in real time to consumer comments. can they turn credit is into champions? >> time for friday's perfect pets. >> who is your friend? >> we are back. our friend looks familiar, from the san francisco spca. >> so great to be back in the new studio. it looks fabulous. brighter. >> talk about the dog. >> rosco! >> he was fund stray in san francisco and he is only one year and seven months so getting out of the pup i years but a little guy. super friendly. really happy. foolproof. cute dog. >> foolproof? >> got to like that the. >> come on, he liked the car

ride down here, he greeted everyone outside and greeting the dogs. >> fantastic. we will see? we can fiend him a family. >> the babies are here, the kittens and puppies and tomorrow is the last foster orientation so if anyone can let these guys in for a couple of weeks it is fantastic and kittens, too. >> hopefully can you do one or the other and call the san francisco spca and volunteer. from all of us at abc7 news thanks for major joining us.

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